The Port System Authority of the Tyrrhenian Seas Southern and Ionian awarded to the group of enterprises temporary composed of the Spanish Dravo and the Venetian La Dredging the works of "Three-year maintenance of the seabed of the port of Gioia Tauro through the spying of underwater dunes". The program of levelling interventions lasting three years (2023-2026), on a quarterly basis, will start in the first days of September and provides for a total of twelve interventions. Each year there are four interventions, necessary to maintain The dimensions of the draft plans are always efficient. Works will concern the levelling of the seabed without removal of sand. For each individual quarterly maintenance intervention, it is A maximum time of five days is expected, using a dredge THSD, or ten days using another suitable sea craft to the leveling of the seabed. The intervention will be considered completed to reach 30 thousand cubic meters of leveled sand.

The harbour authority has highlighted that it is an intervention necessary to keep the channel depth constant port which, due to the dunes generated by the movement of ships in and out of port, must be leveled in order to ensure the safety of navigation.